At least 9 migrants drowned while attempting to cross the swollen Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas earlier this week.
Ruthie Epstein, a former deputy director of immigration policy at the ACLU.“This heartbreaking tragedy highlights once again the need for Congress to act and pass immigration reforms.”
About two months ago, he said, 12 bodies were recovered on the same day—six by the Mexican authorities and six by U.S. rescue officials—after another large group tried to cross into the United States. Belying Republican claims that President Joe Biden’s “open border” policies are to blame for tragedies like the Eagle Pass drownings and thepublished earlier this year noted that “migrants have increasingly turned to riskier methods of entering the U.S. as enforcement policies along the border have strengthened.”report, there have been more than 1,000 border fatalities during Biden’s tenure, both on land and in the river.editor James North.
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